A children's bible, a novel, Lydia Millet
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Subject
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- Runaway children -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Parent and teenager -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Bible -- Fiction
- Family vacations -- Fiction
- Emotions -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- Siblings -- Fiction
- Environmental disasters -- Fiction
- End of the world + Biblical teaching -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
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A children's bible, a novel, Lydia Millet
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Main title
A children's bible
Oclc number
1120091502
Responsibility statement
Lydia Millet
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"A Children's Bible follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events and characters that often appear in collections of Bible stories intended for young readers. These narrative touchstones are embedded in a backdrop of environmental and psychological distress as the children reject the parents for their emotional and moral failures--in part as normal teenagers must, and in part for their generation's passivity and denial in the face of cataclysmic change. In A Children's Bible, Millet offers brilliant commentary on the environment and human weakness and a vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelations"--, Provided by publisher
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